One thing that is extremely gratifying is that Anqing's food is generally safe.

In fact, it is easy to imagine that Li Dingguo's original idea was to strike at Anqing, which had many ships, and temporarily ensure the control of the rear and the Yangtze River waterway.

Then those homeless people were not fools, and they knew what was most advantageous to rob, so Li Xiangqian immediately learned that he had actually obtained a hundred tons of grain reserves.

Although this is nothing, but it also relieves the pressure, no matter who Zhang Xianzhong, this kid continues to send all kinds of leather and homespun cloth to the emperor to win favor, while recruiting troops and horses to go south directly, his choice is not wrong, Hunan and Hubei are considered to be Zhang Xianzhong's tossed places, the oil and water are not very rich, and the wealth of Liangguang is also known to the world, it is logical to do so.

Of course, it was only at this time that people began to study the political structure of the Great Western Army, as well as the quality of all aspects.

It can be said that this can scare people to death, no matter how people in later generations slander the Great Western Army, how to slander Zhang Xianzhong, as a former small official, although Zhang Xianzhong does not have any big strategic thinking, but at least how to do it still has a good idea, of course, they do not know much about the interaction between Vietnam and Guangzhou, but persimmon to find a soft pinch still understands.

Within the range of operations they can choose, although Shaanxi is their hometown, but they can't feed the soldiers, and the west is the plateau, if they like to go, then whether it is Jiangnan or the imperial capital, they will wave their flags and cheer for them in the distance, and privately muttered what the eight kings ate that they did not digest.

In fact, it was either to go south or to the east, but after thinking about it, Zhang Xianzhong understood that he would not be able to take Jiangnan in a short time.

At this time, the news that Zuo Liangyu was seriously ill began to spread, and there were really a lot of people from Hubei and Hunan under Zhang Xianzhong, and it was easy to arrange a few spies.

Originally, he planned to fish in troubled waters, but at this time, there was a little problem with Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, but it was just some questions about "small goals".

As we all know, our general Zuo Liangyu relied on offering chrysanthemums to start the throne, and then the rise and prosperity basically relied on the virtuous Lord Hou Sui, and in the key battle of the Ming Dynasty to surround Luoyang, General Zuo Liangyu implemented Confucianism very well, that is, the mouth cannon patriotism, self-preservation, immobility, self-respect, it can be said that he is very worthy of the Hou Sui who is bad in the back.

Afterwards, Zuo Liangyu was not killed, but because he had heavy troops, he did not dare to punish him, but he ran to the south.

Of course, the problem here is that it is difficult for Zuo Liangyu to convince the public, and his subordinates have been unknown for a long time.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was such a paradox, if you are a soldier, you need to stare at the exploitation of your boss, the suppression of civilian officials, you can't get supplies, the generals drink ice blood, stupid commands, sometimes it's like that, squad leader Wang, the chairman of the committee ordered you to move the machine gun forward by three meters!

And the reward is the silver that you take your life to exchange for your head, but you don't know if you have a life to take it, and the most terrible thing is that the enemy on the opposite side is getting stronger and stronger!

For example, there is a border in the United States that needs to be patrolled, where there are a large number of drug dealers who want to send goods over, but if you want to guard the border, you must patrol and guard the whole range 24 hours a day, but drug dealers only need to seize an opportunity to send a large amount of white powder over.

Compared with the anti-thieves who can loot at will, although the officers and soldiers can also slowly and leisurely pursue in the back, occasionally loot, but after all, the risk is high and the input and output are small, so the more you get to the later stage, it becomes a consensus that it is better to do the anti-thieves than the officials and soldiers.

Many times, the relationship between Zhang Xianzhong and those officials and soldiers is not the relationship between a cat and a mouse, but a strange relationship of struggle and symbiosis.

After his death, several of his godsons commanded the troops, and they could still fight with the Manchus and the hardcore traitor Wu Sangui for more than ten years, which shows that the core cohesion of this organization is much stronger than that of my Ming Dynasty.

Several sons, except for someone who did not merge with the fire in the later period, at least in the early stage, can be regarded as working together and cooperating properly, this kind of structure is suitable for the use of a loose and profound organization like the Great Western Army, that is to say, if Zhang Xianzhong did not die so early, he could struggle for more years, this is not running.

In the materials of later generations, there is not much research on the military system and various systems of the Great Western Army, but according to various investigations by the elders, as a former official of the government, Zhang Xianzhong's problem is that although he knows a lot about the military system at the grassroots level, the slightly complicated operation is not something they can do.

In later generations, the more troops operated, the deployment of materials, personnel, and roads is a complex activity to the extreme, not to mention that as a company employee, you organize more than 100 people in the company to go to a local suburb for activities and tourism, driving on the way, eating in the middle, going to the toilet, and engaging in activities after arriving at the place, and then bringing people back intact, you can do this, you are definitely a first-class staff!

The more people increase, the more difficult management begins to increase at a geometric rate, and at this time, decentralization is required.

In schools, it is generally divided into different classes after being divided by grades, and there are also leaders of each group in the class, and of course, there are more decentralized management of various committee members.

The Great Western Army is a Shaanxi Righteous Army as the backbone, collecting the elite of the displaced people from all over the world, and the conjecture of later generations is different, both Dashun and Daxi do not like to coerce a large number of civilians.

Of course, this is a good thing, but this system will certainly cause the tragedy of the later Sun Kewang to rebel and merge with fire, but for mobilization, a system similar to the separation of power is still good.

As someone said, peace is just a break between wars and wars, and Zhang Xianzhong, who has been dormant in Sichuan for three years, can be regarded as showing his wolf tail at this time.

In any case, the grain in Anqing cannot be abused, and in terms of land ownership, the elders do not want to make too drastic changes.

First of all, because in the future, the world's most fertile land and minerals have long been on the accounts of the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the demand for grain is not as high as that of later generations, even the farmers of the empire do not grow grain, but only grow cash crops, which is enough to feed billions of people, and the corn in the United States is even so much that it can only be squeezed for sugar and cannot be sold!

Secondly, the expansion route of later generations, Europe has two strategies, one is like the Dutch and the British, while engaging in massacres, while doing business honestly when they can't be killed, of course, as the ultimate form of capitalism, the Dutch can still sell strategic materials to the Spaniards and the British when their own country is at war, and it is natural that they will succeed in the end.

The upgraded British Empire is much smarter than the Dutch, and will divide and divide the original powers of the original powers, and at the same time provoke and encircle them in various ways, and fight desperately at any guy who tries to challenge him, and would rather spend a lot of money than give up.

Of course, there is naturally a reason for the demise of the British Empire, and the long-term stirring behavior makes them very difficult to fight once they face a real strong opponent to fight for strength, and it is good to use the navy's first-mover advantage to block people, but in the face of a suspected traverser like the Führer, they will basically collapse their teeth.

In other words, he has no strength himself, and he plays his hard power to death with offshore balancing tactics, but it is ......

In the end, the victorious empire proved that it had to be strong in its own right, and at the same time it had to have cultural, financial, and military power.

At present, the budget of the elders is very simple, compared to a few people who come out to make money and do not want to stay longer at all, China's strategy is very simple, while engaging in modern education, while using those technologies to develop the land, as the most loving people for the land, the Chinese still eat this set.

Anqing has been transformed into a transit station to undertake foreign immigration, which can also be considered, itself is a good middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with many people, and there is no need to send them too far.

This situation is actually very simple, similar to the United States in later generations, they can produce a large amount of corn, and after using these corn to raise cattle, the price of beef can also be extremely low, although it is difficult to eat, but it can ensure that the bottom can be eaten very cheaply.

In fact, according to the calculations of the elders, if Liaodong continues to grow, relying on those agricultural stations to sell agricultural machinery, pesticides and fertilizer seeds, as well as a large amount of land that has been allocated, there will be no problem in feeding the current population of the whole country in three to five years.

Of course, this refers to the situation of only staple foods, without the production of coarse grains to feed meat animals, and without the cultivation of soybeans, vegetables and various cash crops.

And even in the Ming Dynasty, the most difficult difficulty in the cost of grain is how to transport the main grain producing areas to the consumption areas. 、

The cost is too high, how to deal with it?

Transportation needs energy, just as in this era, energy is basically biological energy, which needs to feed people to do things, and the later steam engine revolution is to convert the main source of energy into chemical energy, of course, and later use nuclear energy, which is another matter.

Therefore, for the people in Anqing City, after Li Xiangqian reorganized the team, he began to clean the city and pay wages, but the previous jobs of these people, such as the palanquin man in the yamen, all kinds of things that were purely a waste of the population, and even the turtle slaves in the brothels, were basically regarded as the opposition that hindered the development of the productive forces, and the elders' favorite was the plot of directly knocking down with a stick after buttoning the hat of the opposition.

Liu Mao's work is now regarded as an overseer, but it is also responsible for cleaning up the city, after screening, there are too many bloody prisoners of war have been screened, waiting for them will be the exile of Jinshan Town, Australia, in fact, Li Xiangqian does not like to exile all the farms in Australia, but it can only take his time, the future is still based on immigrants, the biggest advantage of Australia is not only the proximity, but also the opening of the Australian route, which means that the entire Southeast Asia has basically been cleared of European colonial troops.

Of course, Li Xiangqian calculated, it turned out that this was the era when the colonizers in Southeast Asia were the weakest, and usually a few thousand people ruled an island country.

Both the Dutch East India Company and Spain were very weak here, and of course, the problem was that the inhabitants they ruled were also stupid.

These governors or something, although it is easy to clean, but after washing, it is even more difficult to rule such a large area, in fact, the ruling method is very simple, it is people.

Of course, this caused a lot of controversy, and those who were originally low-level coolie workers may still feel that it is not bad to have food and clothing, but those who feel that they are superior people, or simply high-level slaves, remember the good days in the master's place, or what kind of business they are doing, and naturally they are not willing to obey orders.

Li Xiangqian also knew that the citizens of this era, as long as they had a job, were at least better than the precarious peasants, and it was almost too difficult to ask them to leave their hometowns.

After all, compared with Liaodong, which can run back at any time, it is difficult for the United States to run back.

When Emperor Qianlong was in his time, he found that the children of the Eight Banners were unbearable to fight, resulting in the first time in Chinese history that assassins and rebels directly entered the palace from the capital, and almost surrounded a large number of princes and brothers!

Of course, in the current situation, as the temporary ruler of Anqing, Li Xiangqian also fully understands how the local bureaucrats in the old era oppressed the common people.

What was taken away was nothing more than valuable things, and all kinds of valuable goods that were difficult to carry were naturally still there, although they were burned and smashed a lot, but after all, the big head was still there.

Especially the prefect's yamen, but there are a lot of good things, all kinds of antique calligraphy and paintings, there are really some can enter the imperial capital museum.

"Where are these from?"

"Tell the elders, these are the calligraphy, paintings and sandalwood that were looted by those mobs and thrown away."

Li Qianqian nodded, in this era, both Chinese and Europeans import a large number of spices produced in Southeast Asia.

Chinese are mainly used for incense, such as our Ximen Qing officials, when they go out to pick up girls, they like to light a kind of incense, the effect is higher, than perfume, but the main thing is to refresh and cover up the body odor, the body odor of the ancient Chinese is still very light.

(End of chapter)